Women and Death 2: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination Since 1500
Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in German literature and culture since 1500. Amazons, terrorists, warrior women — this volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK and Germany analyzes ideas and portrayals of these figures in the visual arts, society, media, and scholarship, always against the backdrop of Germany's development as a culture and as a nation. The contributors look for patterns in the historical portrayal of warlike women, asking the questions: What cultural signals...
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Explores both constants and changes in representations of warlike and violent women in German culture over the past six centuries.
